Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
WSM member stop and searched under anti-terror legislation highlighting police harassment
Date: Fri, 2012-05-18 16:30
Last night a WSM member along with members of the pressure group 'Republican Network for Unity' was stopped and searched under the Justice & Security Act. This happened while they were conducting an interview highlighting the growing problem of police harassment in a personal journalistic capacity.
Resisting Austerity - Beyond the Ballot Box of the Fiscal Compact Treaty
Date: Thu, 2012-05-17 13:46
On the 31st May, the Irish people will be asked to vote in a referendum on the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union, commonly known as the Fiscal Compact Treaty. The YES side in the campaign argue that this is necessary in order to maintain stability across the EU, and the NO side argue that this treaty represents an enshrinement and continuation of the austerity we have faced since 2008. However, both sides, either through ignorance, cynicism or malice, portray the limitations of people's agency and power as the ticking of a box on a piece of paper.
Want to distribute IAR 5
Date: Thu, 2012-05-17 12:29
Issue 5 of the Irish Anarchist Review will be coming out in time for the Dublin anarchist bookfair. If your coming to the bookfair why not book multiple copies of this excellent publication to take away with you and give to friends or drop off in your local social center or other radical space. If your able to do this use our Contact us form to let us know how many you'd like to pick up at the bookfair. Please include a phone number so we can confirm this with you the night before and so avoid unnecessary carrying of bundles to the bookfair.
As well as various reviews the major issues covered in IAR5 include
- Single issue campaigns, community syndicalism & direct democracy
- Torture, murder & exclusion: Ireland's first 10 years of independence
- Towards an anarchist anti-racism
- Do workers co-operatives help or hinder the building of a libertarian communist society
- Revolutionary organisation in the age of the Networked Individual
Household Tax- planning to win - democracy is the key
Date: Thu, 2012-05-17 10:12
The National Conference of the Campaign Against the Household and Water Taxes in May made some key decisions. The ultimate objective of our campaign should be to ensure that everyone who gets involved in it can have an equal input into our decision-making. This will make for a more democratic and far more efficient Campaign which large numbers of people will feel direct ownership of. That will mean a far stronger Campaign and one capable of winning. On Saturday we distributed this text which explains the case for direct democracy as a leaflet to those attending the conference.
Hundreds expected to attend Dublin Anarchist Bookfair - press release
Date: Wed, 2012-05-16 20:57
Hundreds of people from all over Ireland are expected to attend the 7th annual Dublin Anarchist Bookfair which takes place in Liberty Hall, Dublin on Saturday 26th May. The Bookfair, organised by the Workers Solidarity Movement, will consist of a day of meetings, debates, discussions and films and will also host bookstalls and information stands from a large number of political organisations and campaigning groups.
Cardinal Sins to cover up in Catholic Church- an instrument of control and domination
Date: Wed, 2012-05-16 09:44
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The media frenzy may have settled for now over Cardinal Sean Brady’s failure to pass on information about a notorious clerical sex abuser in his midst but we need to make sure we don’t let this extremely wealthy multi-national chiefdom called the Catholic Church off the hook.
On Tuesday 1st May, a BBC spotlight programme revealed that cardinal, and then Fr Brady was at interviews in 1975 where two children were asked to sign a vow of silence after they were abused by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth. One survivor, Brendan Bolan told This World that he had given details of other children to Fr Brady(who was the ‘note taker’ at the time) he suspected were being abused but the problem found that none of their families or the police had ever been warned.
Rossport Solidarity Camp gathering 1-4 June
Date: Tue, 2012-05-15 15:03
The seventh annual Rossport Solidarity Camp gathering is taking place in Erris, Co. Mayo from the 1st-4th June. You are invited to take part in workshops/discussions, skillshares, music and fun! We hope for this year's gathering to link up community struggles from all over Ireland, bringing people together to share skills and campaigning experiences.
2012 Dublin anarchist bookfair
Date: Tue, 2012-05-15 14:58
The 7th Anarchist Bookfair tool place in Dublin the weekend of 26th May 2012 at Liberty Hall, Eden Quay. The Dublin Anarchist Bookfair takes place in Dublin every year in the Spring.
Eurocrisis - understanding the anti-austerity elections - Four elections and a funeral
Date: Tue, 2012-05-15 10:54
The slow-motion car crash that is the ongoing Eurozone crisis has hit yet another seizure point. The previous weekend’s French and Greek elections, Sunday’s German election in Nordrhein-Westfalen and the threat of a second Greek election next month, has raised the Eurozone stress levels back to panic levels. Hanging over the whole situation is the spectre of a death foretold - a funeral for the vision of the Euro as the party that no-one ever leaves.
Report on WSM public meeting in Belfast on anarchism, the future and text of talk
Date: Tue, 2012-05-15 09:52
The WSM organised a successful public meeting on Saturday in Na Croisbhealai workers co-op on the topic of anarchists-who we are and what we are up to. Leading up to the event leaflets and posters were distributed at the annual Mayday march and other meetings in the city. A similar meeting was held recently in Dublin which was attended by 80 plus people and the WSM aims to hold similar meetings across the country so feel free to get in touch.